Neither the left or right are prepared to face Britain's grave energy crisis. I've written for @theguardian.com on how decades of complacency cannot be magicked away by drilling in the North Sea – or even by hoping that renewables will quickly power everything.

We’re excited to co-launch (with @energy-ethics.bsky.social) a new podcast series as part of our Inclusive and Sustainable Futures for Scotland initiative, supported by @scga.scot. Watch the first episode on 'Places' here (coming soon to other platforms!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU6a...

The impact of rising energy costs varies sharply by place. Some cities see households spend close to 9% of income on energy, compared to under 4% in others. Cities outside the Greater South East are more exposed👇

As conflict in and around Iran continues, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has triggered one of the most serious energy security crises in decades. Join our urgent online panel discussion tomorrow, 12 - 1pm BST, Wed 6 May to explore the global fallout www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

This month's newsletter out now. 🎙️*Exclusive* NEW Energy Conversations podcast episode Featuring Marta Santini and Megan Scherrer on making heating fairer for all! 📺Upcoming CEPxUKERC webinar 📆CEP Events at All-Energy 📜Briefing Paper: Rising Block tariffs www.linkedin.com/pulse/cep-ne...

Monthly Grant Writer Event 📢 This workshop provides a supportive forum for building cross-sector connections, sparking new ideas, and strengthening developing proposals. Don't miss this chance to discuss your grant ideas with CEE Grant Writer Gwenaelle Joubert & Director Mette High! More Info 👇

🍅⚡️ Farming meets solar...and saves water. Spanish researchers found that combining agrivoltaics with smart irrigation can cut water use for tomatoes by ~50% 🌊⬇️ How? Solar panels provide shade, reducing evaporation, while crops still grow effectively.

VACANCY 🌎 Sir Anthony Habgood Professor of Climate and the Environment Advance your academic career in a world-leading, interdisciplinary setting and drive exceptional climate research. More: tyndall.ac.uk/news/sir-ant... #ClimateJobs

About 20 years ago, lighting was the single largest use of electricity in American homes. But energy-efficient lightbulbs has shrunk the category to sixth place! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

REVEALED: A French PR executive with gas industry ties linked to a coordinated Facebook network spreading heat pump misinformation. Always the same playbook: manufacture doubt, delay the transition, protect the incumbents. www.desmog.com/2026/04/23/f...

HELP NEEDED: We're looking for the best data on CAPEX and levelised cost of heat for electrothermal energy storage ideally based on actual projects rather than hypotheticals. Any data you can share much much appreciated!

Energy Cafe 📣 🔹 Enough of Ethics 🔹 12 - 1pm BST 🔹 Tues 28 April Simon Önnered & Erin Rizzato Devlin discuss the obstacles to implementing sufficiency policies and the way towards more equitable, sustainable, and resilient energy systems #EnergyTransition #EnergyJustice tinyurl.com/274yh2uh

📖 Join us this Wednesday for the final meeting of the @energy-ethics.bsky.social Virtual Reading Group on #EnergyHeritage! Our concluding theme is INDIGENOUS & SOLAR FUTURES ☀️; we'll be reading Kinder, LaDuke, and some #solarpunk fiction. No need to have attended prior sessions!

There's a lot being shared right now about China's incredible shift towards renewable energy - and rightly so. But this, from the UK, is equally astonishing & encouraging. It's not just that change can happen. It's that it *is* happening. (Via climateactapp.substack.com/p/your-daily...)

Join us for another Energy Cafe 📢 Decentralising a SIDS' Grid 12:00 - 1:00pm BST, Tuesday 14 April Chima Michael Anyadike-Danes examines how various stakeholders explicated the solar rush & stall in Barbados, and what they believe it means for the future www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

How can scholars turn research into real impact? What is it like to step into the heart of government? Find out in our fireside chat with @mettehigh.bsky.social & @seansfield.bsky.social 1:30 - 2:30pm BST 🕜 Wednesday 8 April 📆 Online only 💻 www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

Hollywood, Westerns and the Oil Frontiers of Grass (1925) 12 - 1pm BST Tues 31 March Patrick Adamson discusses Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life (1925) & how it deployed conventions of the Western genre to advance the aims of fossil capitalism www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

The first grid-scale Li-ion battery was connected to the grid in 2012. It was 5 MW. Today, 267,000 MW have been deployed globally. By 2030 it could be 800,000–1,200,000 MW.

Energy Stories Competition 📚 The Scottish collective 'Paperboats' has launched their writing competition. If you are a Scottish-based author or poet - or want to try your hand at it - take this opportunity to tell your energy story. Closing date: 15 April 2026 ⏳ paperboats.org/energystories/

Re-visiting Eugenia Kisin's biography of Bideford Black (a natural pigment mined in Devon) this week for the 2nd last (!!) session of the @energy-ethics.bsky.social reading group on #EnergyHeritage. Forgot how compelling of a read this is - check it out: journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/ma...

Another interview on the impact of the war on energy: We should fix the roof when the sun is shining not when there's a thunderstorm. Only when we shift energy demand from burning fuels to using clean power will we shield ourselves from crises. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgm4...

Before Russia invaded Ukraine; before the right tried to re-write North Sea oil & gas history; I created a municipal renewable energy company & wrote about how public ownership of energy can deliver a safer, cleaner future for Britain. It has aged well…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/powe...

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) (@thecccuk.bsky.social) has just published a new report which revealed that the cost of #NetZero by 2050 is less than a single fossil fuel price spike. 📣 Key messages thread 🧵 Read the report: www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...

Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof. That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy. The dealer needs to keep you addicted.

Universities provide an interesting testbed for adopting innovative technologies. Here is Princeton using what appears to be a very large ground source heat pump with 2,000 (!) boreholes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjdS...

Energy Cafe Tomorrow 📢 'Climate and Bonds' 12 - 1pm GMT Tues 10 March Online only Join Bert Scholtens as he explores a new analysis of the economic impact of drought exposure facing companies in the US. Registration open now 👇 👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! We talk energy democracy and the politics of dealing with recalcitrant utilities together w/ Nikki Luke! Listen & enjoy to this, the 250th episode of this humble podcast. @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4nxnanfn

"The need to travel further and faster into a #renewable based energy system with decoupled pricing has never been stronger." Our Senior Research Fellow in Sustainability Policy, @richsulley.bsky.social shares his reaction to the #SpringStatement. Read the full response here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/yh25m67x

Following the price surge, the British right are pedalling a fantasy of self-sufficiency through North Sea oil. This has no serious basis in reality. Britain has been a net energy importer for 20 years. It has nothing to do with net zero and everything to do with decades of declining production🧵

New PhD studentship @cast-centre.bsky.social 🚨 ❔️ How can cultural activities such as sport support climate awareness and action? How can group/social identities encourage low-carbon, climate-resilient behaviours? Fully funded for 3 years 🔗 buff.ly/Mzbo7qB #PhDPosition #EduSky #AcademicSky

Gas prices jumped again this morning and are on track to double - a stark reminder of our exposure to fossil fuel volatility. The real solution isn’t more drilling, but moving away from combustion: electrify, use renewable power, and boost energy efficiency.

Right now UK is pretty much running the electrical grid on renewables and Nuclear.

We have a new events series! Join us on the first Thursday of each month for our Grants‑In‑Progress Workshop This interactive session is for you to connect, explore opportunities for collaboration, and share insights into crafting successful applications www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

Researchers...examined a range of 2050 Net Zero energy scenarios for Great Britain, assessing how climate risks might affect electricity supply and demand technologies, as well as the resilience of transmission and distribution networks 🔗 buff.ly/qbfOSvV

EE2026 Call for Posters We are warmly inviting academic poster submissions from Undergrad, Masters, PhD students & Early Career Researchers engaging with the theme of 'Infrastructures of Energy'. Poster submissions close 13 April 2026 Find out more: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/ee2026/call-...

In 2025, the Government introduced a range of policies to advance its Mission to make Britain a Clean Energy Superpower In the Review of Energy Policy, we assess the latest developments in our sector. Read the Review in full: ukerc.ac.uk/publication/...

This is another tremendous find by @threadinburgh.scot. It's also a powerful reminder that Edinburgh was an industrial city into the late twentieth century - a centre of brewing and distilling surrounded by Scotland's coalfields.

Want to hear more about how interdisciplinary research is helping fuel Scottish homes? Our own CEE Director, Prof @mettehigh.bsky.social and Prof Kenneth Gibb discuss the multiple challenges of fueling homes in Scotland in the 'When Disciplines Meet' podcast www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I'll be on Reporting Scotland on the BBC Scotland Channel at 7pm discussing nuclear energy jobs and concerns about the economic future of Caithness, North Ayrshire and East Lothian. Nuclear has been absent from the 'just transition' agenda despite the Scottish government planning to phase it out.

Such a fun and creative session yesterday.m ✨️ We read Laura Watts' 'Energy at the End of the World' (2018) - an inspiring methodological experiment and rich ethnographic text! Join us in February for our next session on the theme of Petroleum Archives #EnergyHeritage #ReadingGroup

NEW – Guest post: 10 key climate science ‘insights’ from 2025 | @krisebi.bsky.social and Prof Sabine Fuss Read here: buff.ly/RuEa0Nl

In a world increasingly defined by both climatic and political unpredictability, a diverse and sustainable energy mix needs to be a primary concern for policymakers here in the UK and around the globe www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Join @camillemarys.bsky.social tomorrow (Wed 21 Jan) for the first CEE Online Reading Group meeting of the year. Session 3 of this series is titled: 'Sagas of Renewable Energy' energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/cee-r...

We're entering week 3 of 2026 soon and all of us from BES Conservation Ecology would like to greet you with bright smiles at our first meeting of the year 😊 Follow us on Instagram to see more from us at the link below! www.instagram.com/p/DTkbIVUDKIL/

Looking forward to energy #anthropology panel proposals for #EASA 2026! 🔌🔦 nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

2025 has been confirmed as the third warmest year on record, following 2024 and 2023, in a series stretching back to 1850. Data from the Met Office, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and @ncas-uk.bsky.social shows 2025 was 1.41 °C above the average for 1850-1900. Read more 👉 bit.ly/3NkfQH9

Congratulations to Ed Stephens, who has been offered a position as Honorary Professor! Ed joined St Andrews in 1972 and “retired” in 2005. But since then, his work on applying geochemical methods to tobacco research and exploring the health impacts of vaping, has had outstanding impact.

The University of Leeds is looking for a Research Fellow in stratospheric climate modelling of Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) 🌍💻 If you have a PhD in a relevant field apply now to boost your career in one of the UK's leading research Universities! Apply by 2 Feb jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Happy New Year from all of us at the Centre for Energy Ethics! We celebrated by compiling a list of our most popular posts through the year. Check it out over on our website! energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/year-in...

📢 Oxford Networks for the Environment (ONE) Annual Lecture Can science & policy keep pace with the rapidly growing carbon dioxide removal market? Join keynote speaker Professor Gideon Henderson, followed by a panel discussion and drinks reception. Register: bookwhen.com/onenetwork#f...